Spending program
Legal Services
Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs · Indigenous services and reconciliation
In fiscal year 2024–25, Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs spent $62.2 million on Legal Services, down from $68.6 million in 2023–24. That is $2.08 per tax filer.
Headline figures
Fiscal year 2024–25
$62.2M
0.2% of Indigenous services and reconciliation spending in 2024–25.
Down $6.4M from $68.6M in 2023–24.
$2.08per tax filer$1.51per person
Per tax filer uses 29,965,100 tax filers (2023, the latest count published); per person uses a population of 41,162,593 (2024). An allocation of cost, not a tax bill.
Show these figures as a table
| Fiscal year | Spending |
|---|---|
| 2018–19 | $79.6M |
| 2019–20 | $73.9M |
| 2020–21 | $74.9M |
| 2021–22 | $63.1M |
| 2022–23 | $69.9M |
| 2023–24 | $68.6M |
| 2024–25 | $62.2M |
Source and basis
- GC InfoBase - Open Datasets, retrieved 2026-11-03. Open Government Licence - Canada.
- Actual spending reported by the department for this program, reconciled to Public Accounts expenditures by vote. Includes operating costs, capital and payments to others.
← All indigenous services and reconciliation spendingHow the figures are calculated